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Jibo’s Roberto Pieraccini

Social robot Jibo wants to join your family, positioning itself somewhere under human members but over pets in the hierarchy. The company’s work with automatic speech recognition, as explained by Roberto Pieraccini, can surely aid this ambition.

String, rocks and robotics

Rockprint

Robotics joined forces with string and rocks for “Rock Print,” a full-scale architectural installation demonstrating the capacity of a 3D printing process to create a geometrically-complex construction. And we took a look at developments in in-situ robotic fabrication – the goal of several research projects within the National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR).

And there are also some fabulous reads, in Nature, Ken Goldberg reviewed Machines of Loving Grace, Rise of the Robots and Our Robots, Ourselves – all explore the nexus of people and robots but from very different perspectives